Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI)
Bringing
Green Revolution to Eastern India (BGREI) program was initiated in 2010- 11 to
address the constraints limiting the productivity of "Rice based cropping
System" in Eastern India comprising of 7 (seven) states namely Assam,
Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Easter UP and West Bengal. The goal of
BGREI programme is to harness the water potential for enhancing the rice
production in Eastern India which was hitherto underutilized. BGREI comprise of
four broad categories of interventions:
·
Block
demonstration
·
Asset
Building
·
Site
specific activities
·
Marketing
support including post-harvest management Apart from these under BGREI
programme, adoption of new seed varieties, farm machines & implements ,
nutrients, pesticides and knowledge based interventions are being promoted in
different agro climatic zones of Eastern states.
For achieving the goals of
BGREI programme the following strategies are advocated:
·
To
promote improved production technology of rice on massive scale including
popularizing of newly released HY cultivars and Hybrids.
·
To
bring rice fallow areas under cultivation through cropping system based
approach.
·
To
popularize adoption of stress tolerant rice varieties.
·
To
create irrigation structures like farm ponds, lift irrigation point etc. to
improve irrigation potential.
·
To
promote use of farm machineries and implements suitable for small land holding.
·
To
create infrastructure such as godown, procurement centre, marketing
infrastructure etc.
Knowledge-smart
technology supported by the scheme: Improved seed varieties, farm machines
and implements, Integrated pest management knowledge based interventions
Know
more about this: https://diragri.assam.gov.in/schemes/detail/bringing-green-revolution-to-eastern-india-bgrei